Protect your fingers: oil the joints daily.

Jack Black said:
For some reason, all the pharmacists here have stopped selling it John. It's still sold for mixing into the feed of animals, but I've not yet managed to find a pet shop that has any. I'll order online if I get desperate, but it only seems to be sold in large amounts - and I really don't oil my knives that often! ;)

I bought some supposedly unscented baby oil a while back, but it was definitely perfumed, and I like my knives to smell like knives rather than baby's backsides! :D
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Your right Jack, unless you want your knives smelling of Johnsons Baby Oil it's difficult to find mineral oil these days. However if you try catering suppliers its usually sold as 'Butchers Block Oil'. I got my last bottle from Barnitts in York a couple of years ago.
 
I check most of my knives once every couple of months. I oil some of the joints and coat most of the blades.

Best regards

Robin
 
HAH! Thanks for the tips at Home Depot, and for the laughs...

Mine are oiled when I sharpen them; except the daily users are cleaned of pocket dust bunnies & oiled weekly.

I mostly use butcher block oil or Breakfree CLP.
 
donn said:
Your right Jack, unless you want your knives smelling of Johnsons Baby Oil it's difficult to find mineral oil these days. However if you try catering suppliers its usually sold as 'Butchers Block Oil'. I got my last bottle from Barnitts in York a couple of years ago.
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Thanks for the tip Don, I'm in Barnitt's about once a month :thumbup:

I was checking some of my stored knives last night, and the carmelia oil has really made a mess of some of them, and they're all going to need cleaning and re-oiling. It appears to have damaged the original mirror polish on some of them, as well as gunking the joints up and smearing/staining the blades :(
 
Jack Black said:
...I was checking some of my stored knives last night, and the carmelia oil has really made a mess of some of them, and they're all going to need cleaning and re-oiling. It appears to have damaged the original mirror polish on some of them, as well as gunking the joints up and smearing/staining the blades :(
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That sounds less than ideal! :( Sorry to hear it, Jack; maybe it will turn out to be not as bad as initially reported.

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
That sounds less than ideal! :( Sorry to hear it, Jack; maybe it will turn out to be not as bad as initially reported.
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Thanks my friend, I certainly won't be using it again :(

Half/Stop said:
Mark, "Britches" are what I got "Tanned" quite regularly as a young rambunctious boy :D:eek::D:eek:
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You certainly weren't alone there! :eek:
 
Half/Stop said:
Primble - let me help you out a little on this :D

Mark, "Britches" are what I got "Tanned" quite regularly as a young rambunctious boy :D:eek::D:eek:
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:D:D:D:D

My mother used to tell me that I was gettin' too big for my britches when I acted up a little, now and then. Sometimes, it was followed with a tanning of my britches. :o:o:D

I think I got a tanning (or lectures) every now and then over my pocket knives. Maybe she should have done it a little more often and then maybe I wouldn't have a house full of knives now ! ;):D
 
I use WD-40 on my knife and finger joints. Use it on the knee and hip joints, sometimes, too.
 
WD-40 is not good for lubricating joints. It displaces oil. Essentially the opposite of what you want. It will free things up initially, but does nothing to lubricate long term.
 
BigBiscuit said:
WD-40 is not good for lubricating joints. It displaces oil. Essentially the opposite of what you want. It will free things up initially, but does nothing to lubricate long term.
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Eh? No. WD-40 displaces water. It may dilute the oil with its own ingredients, but it will not displace oil.
WD-40 is essentially oil thinned out with kerosene, plus a couple of other additives to help it displace the water. It is not the best lubricant. But it does OK. Once the solvent has evaporated the residuum is gooey and slimy. So, it does lubricate.
 
Actually, you're correct Frank. It's just my experience in equipment maintenance, WD-40 is a very poor lubricant. I don't know of any equipment manufacturers that recommend it as a lubricant. Cleaning and flushing, OK. Not for lubricating though.
 
I'd agree with that. Kind of a slimy goo. It does lubricate, but not like pure oil does.
 
"whale spit" had good reviews, but i can say that the singer sewing machine oil is very effective for lubricating joints and pivots, and readily available.
When i oil the joints i also rub the blade and handle wiping the excess singer oil.

If you use wd40 to oil the joints you'll gall the spring/tang interface in the not so long run...it is not a lubricating oil.
 
If I oiled the joints daily my knives would get so full of gunk and junk the oil collected I'd be cleaning them as often as I was oiling them.
 
BigBiscuit said:
Actually, you're correct Frank. It's just my experience in equipment maintenance, WD-40 is a very poor lubricant. I don't know of any equipment manufacturers that recommend it as a lubricant. Cleaning and flushing, OK. Not for lubricating though.
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I recently sourced and retrofitted a small 3-Axis CNC from an American company for one of the branches I do engineering work for. I read through the manual and was shocked to find they recommended weekly lubrication of the linear rails with WD-40! I'm guessing it's more to clean them but I didn't recommend it to the maintaince team because the bearings already have grease in then and the WD-40 would most likely try to join that party...

As far as knives: when I need a cleaning spray oil I always use RemOil. It's similar to WD-40 in that it cleans well but it tends to lubricate a bit more and never seems to gum up.
 
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